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Akerbeltz: really love the retro feel of this, and the side view is fantastic - if you had had time to expand on the deck plans it might have gotten my vote this month
Djespek: Beautiful art as always and a fun idea as well. Fun that you were the only one who went with a fantasy theme this time around
EricP: Wow - what a fantastic work you've done here - the graphics are simple but works for a map of this size - great work
Midgaard: Love the old school look of this bring me back to Traveller back in the 80s ... to bad you didn't get to finish the whole thing
Sinnyo: cute chubby little ship - got an autocamper kind of feel to it - the live-in-little-trader

This was a cool challenge. I wish I would have finished. It was my first foray into this sort of non-freehand vector work. Most of the time frustration got the best of me after putting in a hour or two of fiddling with nodes. Still, I learnt quite a bit working on the map as far as it got.

My votes went for EricPoehlsen's insane, mindblowingly detailed plan, and Sinnyo's space ship which although small had a beautiful design.